TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gang, Ira N.
AU  - Yun, Myeong-Su
        TI  - Decomposing Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition
        PY  - 2002/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 579
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp579
        AB  - This paper studies the cause of the changes, or lack of, in wage inequality in East Germany
during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested
in how much of the change in the dispersion of wages can be explained by the changes in
the characteristics of workers and how much can be explained by the changes in returns to
characteristics of workers.

        KW  - residuals effect
KW  - decomposition analysis of inequality
KW  - coefficients (price) effect
KW  - earnings equation
KW  - characteristics (quantity) effect
        ER  -